43. Consciousness – Life – Form

GA 46/46-03-43/p062 · English MediumMedium alignmentSome paragraph re-numbering between this translation and the German original — the locus may slip by a paragraph or two.

The moon is a re-embodiment of the sun planet. Now, in the period in which the stage of sun development is repeated on the moon, that is, in the second cycle, the sun body emerges from its mass. Within this emerged sun body live those beings who have attained a level of consciousness and life for which no conditions can be found on the moon itself. During the second cycle, these are the elemental forces; during their life on the sun they have also experienced the life of the physical human body. Now on the moon, this stage of the sun only leads a stunted, retarded existence in the animal plants described above. The elemental forces cannot live in them. Rather, they animate these beings from the outside, sending them the light they need from their sun. During the third lunar cycle, the descendants of the Saturn planetary spirit have also risen to a level where they can no longer find existence on the moon. And so, during the fourth cycle, the archangels leave the moon, which in this period of time is also the dwelling place of the “angels”, just as the earth is later, in its fourth cycle, the dwelling place of human beings.

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